Lore And Biology Of The Mudraptor in Barotrauma! (Theories and Conjecture)

[@Pedro_Alcantara]

Since a few updates ago, assistants can now tame mudraptors by raising them from the eggs, And if feed and kept, they are actually loyal and protective towards the owner

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

I was about to comment on that.

[@user-wd5uo5pb7v]

Don't forget. The eggs have to be crafted with Dementonite to become "PetRaptor" Eggs.

[@Blademaster162]

I love the way you mix in-game mechanics with lore, our crew actually just had the mudraptor transport mission and that captain's log was a perfect way of telling it

[@zakugt5098]

Good Ol Rex

[@lechking941]

@@zakugt5098 the best boi

[@lechking941]

when i first had that i wont lie i freaked a bit and was a little overcauses but now im experinced and its just a 2 organics being transport im no longer as buggered. :P

[@hunormagyar1843]

@@zakugt5098 I was playin on hard mode and my crappy Camel's roof was ripped off by hammerheads, and Rex swam out, never to be seen again... Like my sub, cuz it f*cking fell through a hole in the Abyss and got latcher'd...

[@lechking941]

@@hunormagyar1843 OOOOOOOOF well sounds like rex knew when it was time to bail or nature was calling for him with some females sent :P

[@wolfwalker4585]

'Impossible to tame' Ah, yes, this brings me back Quite a while ago, I was running security for a rather large sub, and we had a cargo mission I only passed through gunnery compartments and the armory, nigh never visiting any other place on the sub, unless I was directly asked to by the captain or had wounds that I couldn't treat with my personal first aid, so I had no clue what was happening elsewhere on the ship, unless I heard it on radio I came back from a expedition into a cave, in which we killed a swarm of crawlers Once back, I wanted to find our medic to check me for a Husk infection, since back then I wasn't entirely sure what transferred it back then Upon opening one door, I came face to face with a giant blue mudraptor After a split second of shitting myself, I dumped a... 'reasonable' amount of buckshot into said raptor Moments later, my captain asked what was happening After I told him there was a mudraptor in the sub, he asked if was firing at it Then everyone laughed their asses off, cause I went ballistic on a *'tamed'* mudraptor Much to (almost) everyone's misfortune, the raptor died For a bit more context, the previous crew I was on was torn apart several times by those things, so yes, I was 'a bit' jumpy around those things

[@aidreinhorn1534]

"oh I wonder where my pet mud raptor is-" **a 12 gauge rings out**

[@sirfredrin6302]

I believe the inability to tame a mudraptor stems from a lack of awareness. As said, mudraptors will attack any light source, suggesting that it uses some other sensory organ to detirmine whether something is friend or food. Domestication would require breeding mud raptors until only the ones that view humans as friends remain, and that would take some time, plus if there was a secret project to make domesticated mudraptors, the fact that normal people don't know enough about them would explain why the coalition would lie and say "they can't be tamed" just so idiots stop killing themselves. Edit: turns out some idiots actually managed to make raptors that think humans who are alive aren’t food somehow, by those who repeatedly die.

[@pawetomana7578]

I'd believe that mudraptor egzoskeleton is not chitinous but rather bony. I base this on their loot "hydroxyapatite" which is one of the largest component of bones in earth lifeforms. I'd say it's an amazing informative vid :D

[@kyosokutai]

Huh and here I assumed it was merely a gastrolith.

[@aidreinhorn1534]

medic: where the fuck is all my saline at? **arti hiding in the ballast** arti: Don't worry, they won't find you little one.

[@MarionetteDuAuguste]

So mudraptor shells are not chitinous. Chitin (pronounced like Titan) is a long chain bio polymer that forms a fibrous structure that is most recognizable as the main component of arthropod exoskeletons. Notably, chitin is primarily found in terrestrial arthropods, while their aquatic relatives tend to sport mineralized armor (like lobsters, which, while also sporting Chitin, primarily rely on calcium carbonate in their shells to protect them) as the necessary minerals to form such plating can be found dissolved in the surrounding water, a resource not available to land dwelling creatures. Mudraptors, to this point, drop Hydroxyapatite when killed. Not only is hydroxyapatite responsible for giving bones their rigidity, it is found in its largest concentration in humans in teeth, where it is primarily responsible for making the enamel found there the hardest substance in the body. Suffice it to say, Mudraptor shells aren’t Chitinous, they are SIGNIFICANTLY more heavy duty than that. Edit: The Mudraptor seems like the unholy love child of the Utah Raptor and a Dunkleosteous

[@momoavatar4960]

plus it makes a nice big crispy crunch when you shoot it with a riot shotgun that i doubt chitin can make

[@thevocatiousunspeakables709]

You mean like "Ki-tin"

[@chaosinc.382]

Ah yes. Constantine 'Bad Luck' Redd, the unlucky Medic of the SS Shitstarter, is very familiar with these creatures. Primarily due to the fact every time she leaves the frickin sub they seem to be waiting for her, or ambush her when she's helping explore ruins. And don't get her started how they sunk her respawn shuttle TWICE. Thankfully with the Barotrauma 40k mod, Constantine is a Medicae with a Laspistol which punches through their armor.

[@lechking941]

XD ouch as a fellow medic i feel the strain of the water often and have had my own number of raptor based encounters but i love the critters for they are intresting but if there is any form of taming to making them into pets i WILL be the man to find it. or i would, but were i operate there has been some heavy genetic tinkering. so pet raptors are a lot more common place around here.

[@FinemBelli]

Another good video! And about the visual stuff, you could simply show clips of the game showing the subject you're talking about.

[@hailstone7470]

Noted!

[@pilotbug6100]

fun fact in the game you can have a pet mudraptor although not in the vanilla version. but there is a mod that allows you to tame them through saline irc

[@theultimatetaxpayer1502]

You would not believe me if I told you that the new skill trees make it possible for assistants to tame mud raptors and have them guard the ship

[@imaz7210]

Didn’t find this until recently. And I just love these videos and barotrauma as a game in general. Keep up the good work!

[@444traper]

Some crewmembers with the use of dementionite have been able to hatch a friendly tho weaker, mudraptor

[@Rodan727]

It'd be cool to see Mudraptors attack other creatures

[@cpt.joshua6108]

I'm looking at the views, and then looking at the subscribers, and I say that this channel is underrated.

[@user-yk1kg5hi3d]

Keep make it! I am really interested on these kind of theories

[@izdatchiken4mz571]

Impressive how do you only have 39 subs you should have more

[@hailstone7470]

cuz i have only done three of the video types so far! lol

[@hailstone7470]

i wrote the alien ruins theory a few months back and didn't do anything with it till last week.

[@mad_prophet]

Aaaand now, mudraptors can be tamed by the assistant

[@WiseArkAngel]

I love how you say “Sit back and relax.” Meanwhile, in the words of R. Kelly, I’m fighting for my fucking life down here on Europa shooting at whatever happens to be tearing apart the hull of my sub at the time.

[@coolgreg6648]

Just found you and really love the Barotrauma content. You’ve earned a sub.

[@hailstone7470]

Thanks it means alot!

[@terra2965]

Love the content and the art!

[@KeyUSeeCZ]

Great video! You got yourself a subscriber :)

[@marz5812]

Ok ngl this is really fricking cool

[@catmanmliolunny]

These videos Robert downloaded from before earth ditched us are proving to be helpful with training new crew..

[@thevocatiousunspeakables709]

Because mudraptors attack flares, I wonder if they have to fend off watchers for some reason

[@harlej3109]

good video but you could give some more screenshots of what you tolking about

[@jamesmiller9342]

Once again, another great video

[@jamesmiller9342]

Hi there, Im not sure if your had read my last comment on your last video. If you have, I do apologize for not specifying the exact type of visuals, whether it be pictures or video clips. What I should of said in my previous comment comment was just a suggestion to mabye sprinkle a couple more pictures into your videos. Maybe adding one or two short video clips about the entity or environment you are debunking, while talking in your usual tone or mabye try staying silent while the clip plays. Sorry if I did cause some sought of confusion for my lack of specification.

[@jamesmiller9342]

I only rilse now someone else sugested the same thing before me, my bad.

[@mr_nothing.the_one_that_no9134]

Just because someone got a raptor as a pet, please please do *not* attempt. They are wild creatures and won't hesitate to eat your arm. I learned it the hard way.

[@Security-Guard]

I think i saw that man in my Submarine

[@SGTShorty65]

In the bonus content of the game, there is a biology sheet for the mudraptor.

[@hailstone7470]

Yeah I found that out after it was already done lol

[@stringisacrow5959]

Lets be honest it was probably a medic who figured out saline could be feed to eggs

[@benmackinnon3645]

What’s your plan for the next vid?

[@hailstone7470]

I'm working on it will be whale of a time thou lol

[@anonymousman34]

In the papers there are mud raptor races

[@darkranger116]

*pushes glasses up snorts* uhm achtually, wolves dont use harems. their prey, like deer, normally do however *zoologist noises*

[@yaboiminecraff]

My sub with 3 petraptors

[@WiseOwl_1408]

They feed eggs? Did I hear that right?

[@vhgiv]

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